Broadcasting live from the launch of the Emirates Airline Festival of Literature 2017 at the Intercontinental Hotel Festival City. Throughout the show today we are announcing the line-up of the authors who will be attending the event next year.

Nadiya Hussain, winner of the 2015 baking show, The Great British Bake Off is one of the authors coming to the festival.

Now in its ninth year, the festival will be held 3-11 March, during the UAE’s 2017 Month of Reading.